Foxes on one of California’s Channel Islands have least genetic variation of all wild animals

Friday, April 22, 2016 - 10:20 in Biology & Nature

21 Lyndal LaughrinSome subspecies of Channel Island foxes could be removed from federal endangered species protection. UCLA biologists report in a new study that a species of foxes living on six of California’s Channel Islands have a surprising absence of genetic variation. The research, published today in the Cell Press journal Current Biology, provides a […]

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